contact us
search
Dr. Greenberg promoted to associate professor
July 6, 2004 — Dr. Jane Greenberg, a faculty member at the School of Information and Library Science since 1999, has been promoted to associate professor.
Greenberg's research, teaching and publication activities focus on metadata and classification.
She is the principal investigator of the Metadata Generation Research Project, a collaboration with the National Institute of Environmental Sciences. Greenberg is developing a model to facilitate the most efficient and effective means of metadata generation.
She is the principal investigator of the Automatic Metadata Generation Applications Project (AMeGA), through which she will identify and recommend functionalities for the development of automatic metadata applications in connection. The project is being conducted in connection with the Library of Congress' Bibliographic Control Action Plan, which is leading libraries in the new millennium.
Greenberg is also the co-principal investigator of Project OpenKey, a collaboration between UNC and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to develop polyclave plant keys. She served as program co-chair for the most recent Dublin Core metadata conference in Seattle, Washington.
Greenberg has a bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester, a master's degree from the School of Library Service at Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to earning her Ph.D., she was the coordinator of special collections cataloging at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research division of the New York Public Library.
From left to right: Michelle Mascaro (MSLS '04), Greenberg and Amanda Wilson (MSLS '04) at the 2004 American Library Association conference in Orlando, Fla.
Mascaro, a soon-to-be cataloger at Utah State University, collaborated with Greenberg on the Metadata Generation Research and AMeGA projects. Wilson, metadata librarian at The Ohio State University, is an AMeGA project task force member and served as the recorder at Greenberg's talk, “Optimizing Metadata Generation Practices,” at the conference.